A Victorian vehicle manufacturing start-up with ambitions to be Australia's first production electric vehicle and a company developing a disruptive new class of insecticides have been given a kick-start thanks to a new funding initiative that helps small businesses access CSIRO research expertise and capabilities. [ + ]

Treotham Automation has announced that it has been appointed by Lapp Group as an authorised distributor across the Australian market for Lapp's cable and connection technologies. [ + ]

GE and Noble Corporation plc have jointly announced a partnership to collaborate on the Digital Rig solution, enabling data-driven operational efficiency by using data analytics, with the target of a 20% reduction in operational expenditure across Noble's rigs. [ + ]

Rockwell will showcase technologies and solutions within the Microsoft, Cisco, Endress+Hauser and ODVA booths. [ + ]

US chemistry groups have joined industry in rising opposition to President Trump's plans to eliminate the Chemical Safety Board. [ + ]

Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) has announced a connected-learning solution based on its UniSim Competency Suite platform. [ + ]

After a successful three-city roadshow in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, Siemens is bringing its website 'The role of hydrogen in the changing energy mix' to audiences nationwide. [ + ]

Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) has today released the 2030 Strategic Plan Issues Paper to drive the national conversation around the future of Australian innovation, science and research. [ + ]

SEW-Eurodrive has officially opened its 2000 m², state-of-the-art Heavy Industrial Service Centre in Mackay. [ + ]

Bill Ferris AC, chair of Innovation and Science Australia (ISA), has argued that bold action is needed to harness Australia's innovation potential in facing up to the risks and seizing the opportunities presented by the forces of globalisation, technological disruption and demographic trends that will shape Australia's economy and society over the medium term. [ + ]

Metso has set up its Digital Program to accelerate the company to a new level in digital capabilities, required to succeed in the future of minerals processing and flow control. [ + ]

Siemens Australia has strengthened its distribution partnership with Colterlec to include an automation portfolio and associated products. The agreement will extend Siemens' footprint in suburban and regional locations and allows customers better access to its automation technologies. [ + ]

ABB has this week launched more than 180 new solutions and services around its ABB Ability brand. [ + ]

A team of CSIRO scientists has made a breakthrough that could result in faster and cheaper production for the pharmaceutical, food and bulk chemistry industries. [ + ]

The chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Rod Sims, has said that domestic gas prices are "making it extremely difficult, if not impossible" for some manufacturers to continue operating. [ + ]